| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: There then followed an exhaustive comparison of details, and a
moment of really awed silence when both detective and scientist
agreed on the virtual identity of the phrase common to two hellish
rituals so many worlds of distance apart. What, in substance,
both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had
chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the
word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the
phrase as chanted aloud:
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh
wgah'nagl fhtagn."
Legrasse had one point in advance of Professor
Call of Cthulhu |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "I want to talk to you about Dick."
"Yes?"
"I think he's in love, David."
David's heavy body straightened, but his face remained serene.
"We had to expect that, Lucy. Is it Elizabeth Wheeler, do you
think?"
"Yes."
For a moment there was silence. The canary in its cage hopped
about, a beady inquisitive eye now on one, now on the other of them.
"She's a good girl, Lucy."
"That's not the point, is it?"
The Breaking Point |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: is not, of course, a part of your examination, which is to follow by
another hand; this is a private interest of my own. You say you
encountered Alan Breck upon the hill?"
"I did, my lord," said I
"This was immediately after the murder?"
"It was."
"Did you speak to him?"
"I did."
"You had known him before, I think?" says my lord, carelessly.
"I cannot guess your reason for so thinking, my lord," I replied, "but
such in the fact."
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